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The first episode of "Twin Peaks" aired on April 8th 1990. It is one of my favorite shows EVER. The same goes for the credits + score.

+ Twin Peaks turns 20: Why the show matters

Twin Peaks wasn't the first high school noir — 1988's Heathers proved murder needs no hall pass — but it mined the disturbing, unsettling world of adolescent sexuality later explored in Buffy
(in which a heroine loses her virginity to her vampire boyfriend, who,
in short order, turns evil and starts picking off her friends) and Veronica Mars. (When I first watched Twin Peaks, I was 12, and already terrified about starting high school; Peaks
did nothing to assuage my fears. I also almost choked myself at a
sleepover while trying to replicate Audrey's trick of tying a cherry
stem into a knot with her tongue.)

+ Still Wrapped In Plastic: 'Twin Peaks' Turns 20

Twin Peaks smuggled avant-garde into prime time, brimming with a
surrealism you just didn't encounter back then. Remember that weird
room with the dwarf who talked backwards? It took cultural stereotypes —
the straight-arrow FBI agent, the teen hottie, the wannabe James Dean,
the corrupt small-town businessman — and pushed them until they
exploded. The result was an often-hilarious show bursting with raw
emotion.